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Absolutely loved the Mousebane & Red Mist series, if you like cats, squirrels & rabbits with some mad science & aliens thrown in, I highly recommend 😍
Book 61 for 2026
Nora goes off Script
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Absolutely loved the Mousebane & Red Mist series, if you like cats, squirrels & rabbits with some mad science & aliens thrown in, I highly recommend 😍
Book 61 for 2026
Nora goes off Script
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Book 18 for 2026
The Angels Share by
Yvonne Vincent#LosersClub3
#Reading #KindlePaperwhite
#Books #BookADon
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Book 18 for 2026
The Angels Share by
Yvonne Vincent#LosersClub3
#Reading #KindlePaperwhite
#Books #BookADon
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How many authors you read in your youth (for me the 1980's / early 1990's) have remained authors you reread and buy new works from? (if still alive) vs. have shown themselves in recent years to have ugly sides that make them no longer people whom you want to support or even reread.
My list of the later is, alas, quite long:
(folks I once read avidly, now am divesting myself of their works):
Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, The terf who shall not be named, Joss Whedon...
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How many authors you read in your youth (for me the 1980's / early 1990's) have remained authors you reread and buy new works from? (if still alive) vs. have shown themselves in recent years to have ugly sides that make them no longer people whom you want to support or even reread.
My list of the later is, alas, quite long:
(folks I once read avidly, now am divesting myself of their works):
Isaac Asimov, Neil Gaiman, Salman Rushdie, The terf who shall not be named, Joss Whedon...
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Finally finished reading this (as a parent Halloween and some other things haven't given me as much time as I would like to read). This is a 5+ star book. A book that everyone should read (especially White Americans) and one that should be a staple of classrooms everywhere. This should be a textbook (it even has quizzes and homework - not easy homework or quizzes but they are there). Deeply researched, exceptionally well written, provocative and insightful. #bookadon #history
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Finally finished reading this (as a parent Halloween and some other things haven't given me as much time as I would like to read). This is a 5+ star book. A book that everyone should read (especially White Americans) and one that should be a staple of classrooms everywhere. This should be a textbook (it even has quizzes and homework - not easy homework or quizzes but they are there). Deeply researched, exceptionally well written, provocative and insightful. #bookadon #history
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#HowToBreatheUnderwater
#ArchiveofOurOwn
New chapter!!
Chapter 6: Wallpaper paste sandwiches.Mayleen and Anya have grasped Creation now, and they are ready to make their own dinner. But will it taste of anything?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45000619/chapters/113516359
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#HowToBreatheUnderwater
#ArchiveofOurOwn
New chapter!!
Chapter 6: Wallpaper paste sandwiches.Mayleen and Anya have grasped Creation now, and they are ready to make their own dinner. But will it taste of anything?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/45000619/chapters/113516359
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Want to know how much of an impact the book 101 Dalmations (and more specifically, Cruella de Vil) has had on my life? Well, as a kid, I didn't like pepper all that much and couldn't handle salt. But, Cruella in the book LOVED pepper, put it on everything (even ice cream!), so I decided to give pepper another shot. Then, I grew to love pepper and was basically addicted to it growing up. All because I modeled my life after a book villain. #Book #Bookstodon #BookDon #Bookadon #Books
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Confession: I have read the book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” and seen the 1984 movie of the same name, but never seen the Disney classic. Tbf, always been too scared to because the book really messed me up as a kid. Like, that book is dark and twisted and it messed me up. Especially when he turns into a donkey. The trauma from reading that as a small child is something I will never forget.
#Pinocchio #Disney #Movie #Movies #Book #Moviedon #Moviemastodon #Bookdon #Bookadon #BookMastodon
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Confession: I have read the book “The Adventures of Pinocchio” and seen the 1984 movie of the same name, but never seen the Disney classic. Tbf, always been too scared to because the book really messed me up as a kid. Like, that book is dark and twisted and it messed me up. Especially when he turns into a donkey. The trauma from reading that as a small child is something I will never forget.
#Pinocchio #Disney #Movie #Movies #Book #Moviedon #Moviemastodon #Bookdon #Bookadon #BookMastodon
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What I'm reading tonight:
(Not pictured is "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson because it's an e-book)
#Books #Bookstadon #Bookdon #Bookadon #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
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What I'm reading tonight:
(Not pictured is "Snow Crash" by Neal Stephenson because it's an e-book)
#Books #Bookstadon #Bookdon #Bookadon #SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy
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Today is a good day to catch up on reading. I am way too far behind. Reading through "Snow Crash" and "Keeper of the Lost Cities: Exile", and in Exile's case, I should have been done with that a month ago. Oops.
#SciFi #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Book #Books #Bookstadon #Bookdon #Bookadon
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I'm reading:
Health Communism: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/a6919afc-35a3-4256-91e7-809c0a9ed086
A Participatory Economy: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/e71e572e-d64a-4ee3-821d-33cee523215c
An Actual Star: https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/2c609329-3354-4eb8-af37-f8b12e0f0fe1
I've been exploring, in nonfiction, various alternate ways of building an anti-capitalist/post-capitalist society: Health Communism deconstructs Health in Capitalism and posits a community-centric approach to health, while A Participatory Economy digs through the nitty details on how to create a society/economy that is very anti-capitalist and places the power in the hands of workers and their communities.
An Actual Star is a fictional story that explores an anarchist future where capitalism has died out entirely. Through Mayan mythological and climate change themes, three characters in three different time periods (all connected in crucial ways) navigate changes to their societies, relationships, and world.
What are y'all reading right now?
#Books #Bookadon #LeftistReading #ClimateChangeFiction #SciFi #Anarchism #Communism #Socialism
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Fiction books I read this year is a shorter list due to how ill I was and how hard it was to focus on the story. I'd lose track of the where and why the characters were doing what they're doing, so I had to restart a few after I had recovered from the worst of the flareups of #LongCovid.
Servant of the Underworld by Aliette de Bodard is a mystery set in the Aztec empire before the Spanish Conquest and genocide. It was fascinating if not creepy too.
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon. An amazing epic that has a plethora of LGBTQIA characters and people of color. I loved the world and the characters. It's a very long read though.
Legendborn by Tracy Deonn was one of the best young adult fantasy books I've read to date. It's about a young woman who goes off to college but is still grieving her mother's death. Except she discovers magic exists, a secret group of King Arthur's court, and rediscovers her family's own heritage. The twist at the end was one of the best I'd read yet in fiction. Highly recommend.
Akata Woman by Nnedi Okorafor. YES. The third book in my most favorite series of all time! This time the four friends embark on their most daring adventure yet -- passing into another reality in order to find lost artifacts to stop a god from destroying humanity. Absolutely breathless worldbuilding and character development. I honest wish I was a Leopard person lol.
Revenger by Alastair Reynolds is about two sisters who end up separated by a pirate attack. The first book is told from point of view of the younger sister in her quest to save her older sister.
Shadow Captain by Alastair Reynolds is the sequel to Revenger and is told from the older sister's point of view. This details what happens after the younger sister achieves her goals. It chronicles the aftermath. The setting is amazing honestly - the spaceships run on solar sails and fly to "baubles" which are worlds with ancient tech shields that open up at certain intervals. People then explore and raid the ancient tech they find.
That's all I read for fiction. Next year, my goal is to balance reading more fiction with nonfiction.
I find reading nonfiction easier when I'm really, really ill because I can start and stop the book without getting too confused as to what is happening. Nonfiction sticks to a topic for the majority of book and each chapter tends to recount what is known or been discussed. So for heavy brain fog days, that helps me remember what was covered.
Fiction can't really recount what happened each chapter as that disrupts the flow of the story. So if you have to take a break and come back later, brain fog and illness may have misplaced my memory of the story, so then I have to reread prior chapters to reorient myself. This takes me longer to finish. It's a sad new reality I have had to come to accept because #LongCovid doesn't seem to be going away. So I try to work around this limitation when I read fiction.
#Fiction #Reading #Books #Bookadon #Liberation #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #YoungAdult #Disabled
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Inspired by @theneurotrust thread about favorite books for the year:
Nonfiction:
#PedagogyOfTheOppressed by Paulo Freire. I wrote an essay based on it here: https://reshapingreality.org/2022/09/06/ways-of-learning/
Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism by Marquis Bey digs into the intersection of race and Anarchism. It diagnoses the problems we face and ways to combat injustice as well as supporting Black folks and making sure no one is left behind in our fight for justice.
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by @chanda is by far one of the best science books I've read to date! Explores the beauty of the universe and the science of understanding it, while also digging into identity, race, and the how the current way of doing science is rooted in racism. It spells out a different way we can explore and do science that is based more in equity and justice.
How to Blow Up a Pipeline by Andreas Malm discusses how the current actions to fight climate change are ineffective and offers alternatives.
Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work by Akilah S. Richards and Adebayo C. Akomolafe. This digs into the oppressive ways learning is done in modern culture and explores alternatives (much of the book parallels Freire and have great overlap in ideas and more just ways of being).
The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A #ClimateJustice Handbook by Cynthia Kaufman. This book covers various ways to get involved in the Climate Justice fight. It has overlapping ideas with Malm's book, though it doesn't push as far as Malm does.
Overcoming Burnout by Nicole Rose is one of the best books I've read about Burnout from the point of view of a marginalized person doing activism and mutual aid work. Excellent advice.
The Care Manifesto: The Politics of Interdependence by The Care Collective. Absolutely crucial for our time right now - discusses ways to build a culture and community of care to fight against the uncaring and eugenics policies being thrust on us in present times.
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds by Arturo Escobar. His writing heavily influences me as it unravels and rebuts the idea of a "one world" and how the only way forward is to live in a world in which "Many Worlds are Possible" a.k.a. the pluriverse. It is heavy on theory, but there's a whole chapter devoted to a case study of a valley in Colombia that re-imagines a new way of building community and relationship to the land - how one would go about reversing capitalism's harm to the landscape and people's imagination and how to re-introduce a pluriverse where many worlds are possible.
Red Nation Rising: From Bordertown Violence to Native Liberation by Jennifer Nez Denetdale, Radmilla Cody, David Correia, Melanie K. Yazzi, Nick Estes, Brandon Benallie. Absolutely fantastic critique of America's violent colonialist capitalist systems, how they harm Native populations, and ways to fight them.
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene by Donna J. Haraway. Beautiful read that explores Climate Change, how we need to restore relations with one another and our planet, and ways to go about doing that. It's full of gorgeous prose, and some interesting re-imagining of humanity near the end of the book.
Dancing on Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. One of the most beautiful and engrossing books I read this year. It digs into Nishnaabeg cultural ways and how they are fighting to dismantle colonialism's hold on their way of live and being.
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Wengrow and David Graeber digs into how the way we discuss history as this linear line of growth is wrong and doesn't actually match the data. Humanity is full of creativity and has experimented with many different ways of being in society throughout history. To try to trace this development line from hunter/gatherer to capitalism is to ignore vast stretches of history and evidence of multiple different ways of being in community.
Followups that I read this year which are okay but not as easy to read or get into:
Old Gods, New Enigmas: Marx's Lost Theory by Mike Davis
Democracy Against Capitalism: Renewing Historical Materialism by Ellen Meiksins Wood
So that's it for nonfiction this year! I read a lot more than I realized. Good thing I kept track with storygraph app. lol
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#KingsFall by @EvanCurrie is out. This is the conclusion of the #OdysseyOne saga. Go get it! #scifi #epic #bookadon #booktoot #indieauthors
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Day 1 of my #bookadvent calendar. The 24 books, I have all read during the past 12 months. All highly recommended. Today's is a football fiction, really funny and a bit of a Billy's Boots feel to it.
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Joining the challenge! Tried to pick seven that had a big effect on my life, not necessarily my favorites.
1. Foundation by Isaac Asimov - the first "grown-up" novel I ever read, it always stays with me for its themes of trying to understand history at a grand scale and use that understanding to make a difference.
2. Personal History by Katharine Graham - even more than books by journalists, the memoir by The Washington Post publisher made me believe in the power of the press and transparency. I did not know it at the time, but it helped me understand that life goes on after a loved one's suicide.
3. War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning by Chris Hedges - deepened my instinctual attraction to pacifism and showed me how powerful a cultural critique can be
4. The Seven Storey Mountain by Thomas Merton - at the time it was one one of the books that made me want to be a Catholic. I no longer possess that desire but Merton's story is still a model of spiritual seeking.
5. The Expressiveness of the Body by Shigehisa Kuriyama - one of the first books I read in graduate school and still an untouchable ideal of scholarship. A book I recommend to everyone to understand how history of science and medicine can change your perspective.
6. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf - For me, this book represents all the ways my wife has shaped my life. Like Woolf and all my other favorite novels, she sees people completely and has the type of sadness and compassion that engenders.
7. Parenting Outside the Lines by Meghan Leahy - I felt like this book gave me permission to be a dad and still be myself with all my flaws. And it made me take Buddhism, Taoism, and Zen more seriously as ideas I could actually apply in my life, not just esoteric traditions.
#7Books #7booksToKnowMe #reading #literature #bookadon #literature #philosophy #fiction
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Six books to get to know me:
1. Beloved by Toni Morrison
2. The Giant's House by Elizabeth McCracken
3. The Essential Dykes to Watch Out For by Alison Bechdel
4. Heavy by Kiese Laymon
5. Get In Trouble by Kelly Link
6. Leaves of Grass by Walt WhitmanAlso, making this list reminds me of LiveJournal.
#booksadon
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Out Now! The incredible Karen Cass gives us the perfect Dorothy Hare reading this 1937 George Orwell classic. #audiobook #audiobooks #Orwell #amnesia #bestsellers #narration #bookadon #bookstodan #book #books We loved working on this title! Thank you so much Karen! 🎉👌🙏
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Out Now! Down and Out in Paris and London was #Orwell’s first published full-length work, read by the incredible Jonathan Keeble. 🎉👌🙏 #actors #narrators #agents #publishers #audible #books #book #actor #audio #reading #bookworm #fiction #instagram #audiobooklove #bibliophile #voiceover #library #audiblebooks #bookish #bookaddict #bookadon #classics
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Books v. Cigarettes #discuss @soundsnoble reads George Orwell, beautifully. Thank you, Peter! 🎉 🙏 #audiobook #actors #narrators #agents #publishers #audible #books #book #actor #booklover #audio #reading #bookworm #bookstagrammer #booknerd #fiction #instagram #audiobooklove #audiobooks #audiobook #bibliophile #voiceover #audiblebooks #bookish #actor #bookaddict #audiobooknarrator #classics #bookadon #bookstadon